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"Go Set a Watchman," a draft of what would later become the iconic Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "To Kill a Mockingbird," follows a 26-year-old "Scout" Finch as she returns to Maycomb, Ala., to visit an aging Atticus. Against the backdrop of civil rights, Scout learns disturbing truths about her family and community that question her childhood memories.

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